The Reflection:Response Commission invites choreographers to consider as a starting point how we 'reflect' and 'respond' through different kinds of embodiment: the experiential body, the choreographic body and the activist body. The commission includes a cash award of $5,000, access to rehearsal space throughout summer, and the production of the new work in Temple's Conwell Dance Theater.
2019 - Marion Ramirez
Internationally acclaimed dancer and choreographer, Marion Ramírez, will create Knots and Nests, an improvisational performance project for people of all ages...
Message from Dr. Robert T. Stroker, Dean and Vice Provost for the Arts
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
It is with great sadness that I share the news of Dean Emerita Helen Laird's passing. Dean Laird, who led the college from 1978 to 1993, passed away yesterday at 92 years of age.
Dean Laird was a beloved member of the Boyer family. An extremely influential dean, she was responsible for expanding our instrumental programs through the merger with the New School of Music, adding new undergraduate and graduate programs, building our opera program to national renown,...
LAMBERT ORKIS (Keyboard Studies)August - Recording released by Deutsche Grammophon: Hommage à Penderecki (2 discs). On this recording, Orkis performs with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter Krzysztof Penderecki's Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano. Also, Orkis performs in concerts as principal keyboard of the National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. September through December of this year. SARA DAVIS BUECHNER (Keyboard Studies) performed recitals and chamber music, and gave master classes, at a number of important music festivals this summer -- at the Edmonton...
Contact: Merián Soto, Curator, Reflection/Response Choreographic Commission
The Temple University Department of Dance, Institute for Dance Scholarship, is delighted to present the seventh Reflection:Response Choreographic Commission, Lacks Criticality, by award winning choreographer and Master Artist, Awilda Sterling Duprey.Performances will take place in Temple University's Conwell Dance Theater,on Friday and Saturday, September 21 and 22, at 7:30 PM.
In addition, Sterling Duprey will conduct a public workshop on Orisha abstractions in popular dance, presented in...
On a school day in 2015 at Cheltenham High School, Bill Saurman, remembers hearing jazz music that captured his attention.
It was coming from the Temple University Jazz Band led by Terell Stafford, director of the jazz studies program in the Boyer College of Music and Dance. The song was an arrangement from "E.S.P.," a jazz album by Miles Davis.
"I remember the energy and the sounds that came out of that band was just so energizing," said Saurman, who is also a trombonist. "It was like a high. I wanted to be part of that energy so much. … That's what got Temple on my...